Block v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
1 district · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 2007 · most notably Smith v. Phillips (1982), United States v. Wood (1936)
1 district · 27 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Central Railroad v. Mitchell · Stout v. State · Rice v. State · Hubbard v. Rutledge · Lamphier v. State
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the Legislature, without violating some guaranteed right of the citizen, has assumed to declare who shall be a competent juror with reference to some particular objection which might otherwise be urged against him, the declaration of the Legislature is binding upon the courts, but in the absence of any legislative declaration on the subject, the competency of each particular person called as a juror becomes a question for judicial decision.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. State“was by analogy and for all practical purposes, the plaintiff in the prosecution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“had become and was the employee and subordinate of the prosecuting attorney”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.